A new article by YMCinema has highlighted Canon’s latest submission to the US Patent and Trademark Office, and it may be the company’s clearest signal yet that it’s preparing to enter the camera phone market.
The filing, titled "Image Pickup Device Capable of Performing Image Pickup in a Plurality of Image-Pickup Modes in Parallel and Control Method Thereof", is a heck of a mouthful, but reveals more than just legal jargon and flowcharts. Read closely and it points toward something far more intriguing: a smartphone with serious cinematic ambitions.
